Shoe-tongue support.



PATENTED JULY 2, 1967.

R. P. THOMAS. SHOE TONGUE SUPPORT.v

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To all whom it may concsm;

Be it known that 1, ROBERT P. THOMAS, a citizen l the United States, residing at Eagle Pass, in the .on'nty of Maverick and. State of Texas, have invented new and useful Shoe-Tongue Support, of which the bllowing is a, specification.

The object 02" this invention for shoe tongues which is adapted to prevent the tongue from slipping up. or down or sidewiso.

The device'io applied to lace shoes in vihieh tongues are used. The tongue is provided with suitable openings under which is secured a hacking or shield of suitable flexible material. The shoe lacing is passed through the openings and then carried through the eyelets of the shoe and secured in the usual manner.

tongue 1 behind the. openings 2, 2.-

The backing or shield prevents the lacing from rubbing the foot of the wearer at the point where the iiaid lacing passes under the shoe tongue In the accompanying drawing: Figure l is a perspective view of. the upper t provided with one tom: of support, Fig. 2 is a sectional View of the tongue showing such support.

The tonguefris provided with the openings 2 2.; The

inner sides 3 of the said openings are straight and prefembly pamllel to each other while the outer sides?! of the said openings are prelerzih 1y curved The shield or bucking 5 is secured. 2,}"Llil5ll the inner face of the The stitchingo 6, 6 ecirure the curved edges 4 of the openings 2, to the shield 5, Thus the straight edges 3, 3 are free from the shiehl Whar the shoe being laced, the lacing is PELSFGYR Specification of Letters Patent. V

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is to provide asupport ion of u. shoe and tongue Pa-tented July 2, 1807.

under that part of the tongue 1 which lies between the edgee 3, 3 of the openings 2, 2. The lacing is then continued in the eyelets oi the shoe and the endsof the lace are secured in the usual manner. It will thus be seen that, as thntportion oi the tongue 1 which lies between the edges 3, 3 iii-lashed by the lace to the edge of the shoe, that theseid tongue cannot move up or clown or. sidewise. The stitchings 6, 6 prevent the points of the lace from passing between. the curved edges 4,4 of the openings 2, 2 and the shield 5,

By reference to Fig. 1 it w l be seen that one of the v openings 2 is located a trifle nearer the upper end of the tongue than the other opening 2. This permits the shoe lacing to pass through the tongue support in a directline, when the shoe is laced, and is not distorted by said support out oi netraight line.

Havingdescribed my inventionfwhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is z' l. A shoe tongue having openings part of whoseerlges are straight anclpart round, a shield attached to the under sun-[nee or. the tongue and extentling under said opening, the round portions of the edges of said openings being at tached to the shield.

2. A shoe tongue having openings purl: of whose edges 'ar'e straight and part roumlya shield attached vto the under 

